Great Depression
What is the Great Depression?
Economic crisis in the 1930s
This program gave money to retired workers and still exists today.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This natural disaster included drought and dust storms in the 1930s.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
The president who created the New Deal.
What is margin?
Borrowing money to buy stock is called buying on margin.
What is the Great Depression?
Too much easy credit and high taxes and the stock market crash caused this event.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
This program created jobs building roads, schools, and libraries.
What happened in Kansas?
They suffered some of the worst Dust Bowl damage?
Who were the Bonus Army?
World War I veterans who marched on Washington.
What is direct relief?
Government payments or food given to poor people.
What is the Stock Market crash?
This event in 1929 caused many people to lose their investments.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
This program put young men to work planting trees and building parks.
What is about 1,200 miles?
Farmers left Oklahoma and traveled about this many miles to California.
Who were hoboes?
Men who rode trains looking for work
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act?
A law that set national minimum wage and banned child labor under 16.
What was the farm crisis?
Overproduction of crops and low prices.
This program built dams and brought electricity to poor Southern areas.